GEARS Inc.

About GEARS

Posted Fri, 09/10/2010 - 00:45 by philbot

GEARS stands for "Garrett Engineering And Robotics Society".

GEARS is a Non Profit, volunteer based organization, and our mission is to get young people excited about careers in Science, Technology and Engineering. (Membership Application)

Here's a picture and map of our location.

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FIRST Teams head to St. Louis and Washington DC

Posted Wed, 04/25/2012 - 08:54 by philbot

Three Garrett County FIRST teams qualified to compete at the World Championship this year, but only two of them are heading west. Read on for more details.

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GEARS Awarded "SuGO Outreach Project" Grant.

Posted Tue, 10/11/2011 - 16:42 by philbot

Press Release: GEARS Inc. receives Naylor grant for its SuGO Outreach Project.

Thanks to a generous gift from the Naylor Family Trust Fund, awarded through the Community Trust Foundation, the Garrett Engineering And Robotics Society (GEARS) will be making it possible for more Garrett County MD youth to participate in exciting AND educational Robotics activities.

SuGO Sunday update.

Posted Mon, 07/04/2011 - 10:58 by philbot

July SuGO was a blast this Sunday. Since it's 4th July weekend, we had LOTs of out-of-town visitors at SuGO.
This meant that our helpers were taxed to the limit making sure everyone had a fully tested robot ready to compete by 3:00.

In the end we had 10 super teams all fielding cool, and unique SuGO bots.
The ultimate champion was Team 4: M.A.S.K 4, with Team 11: Mountain Lions as the Runner Up.

I've uploaded pictures and video from the event to the SuGO Facebook page

Seaperch Results are in.

Posted Sun, 07/03/2011 - 20:54 by philbot

Welcome back Seaperch Campers...

I'm sure everyone is waiting with bated breath for the Seaperch competitions results. Well the scores are in. I've attached a summary sheet below, BUT... let me summarize the results:

Team Scores.

Team2 (Charlie & Cody), and Team3 ( Andrew & Jacob) tied for first place, both with combined scores of 465 Woo Hoo.

Team 1 (Colin & Riley) and Team 4 (Andrew and Juan) tied for second place, both with combined scores of 400.

Individual Scores.

Garrett County FLL Get Together at GEARS next week.

Posted Sat, 07/02/2011 - 09:33 by philbot

Hi everyone,

Lot's of interest has been expressed about FIRST LEGO League (FLL) for the 2011 Season - "Food Factor" Challenge. Last year ten FLL teams from Garrett County competed and it looks like we'll have at least as many again this Fall. For this to happen we'll need many new coaches, mentors and volunteers.

NASA And DARPA Offer Students Chance To Support Future Missions

Posted Sat, 07/02/2011 - 09:11 by philbot

WASHINGTON -- NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are offering high school students the opportunity to design experiments that will be tested in space.

The 2011 Zero Robotics challenge is a continuation and expansion of a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education program using bowling ball-sized spherical satellites aboard the International Space Station.

2011 Seaperch camp underway

Posted Fri, 07/01/2011 - 13:00 by philbot

This is the beginning of day 3 of the 2011 "Underwater Robots In Space" Seaperch camp.

Campers build their own Seaperch robot and then perform missions to score points. Missions involve simulating the search for life on Europa, and performing repairs outside the International Space Station.

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US Senator Barbara Mikulski visits GEARS center.

Posted Fri, 06/03/2011 - 03:31 by philbot

As part of Senator Barbara Mikulski's education tour of the state of MD, she visited the GEARS center and saw demonstraions of our technology/robotics programs. The Senator interacted with student members of each of the four FIRST Championship teams who recently returned from the WORLD competitions in St. Louis. See picture below.

In the picture with Senator Mikulski are members from NeXT GEN FLL team (971 Red), G-FORCE FTC team (2818 Yellow), Techno-Clovers FTC Team (4240 Green) and GaCO FRC Team (1629 Blue).